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As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

George Bernard Shaw
Justice, Soldier, Littles
'Man and Superman' (1903) act 3

With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

George Bernard Shaw
Mind, Relief, Stones
Saturday Review, 26 Sept. 1896

He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

George Bernard Shaw
Doctors, Law, Practice
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2546, e-artnow

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

George Bernard Shaw
Power, Style, Conviction
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1052, e-artnow

The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

George Bernard Shaw
Pain, Pleasure, Prolonging
1903 Man and Superman, 'Maxims for Revolutionists: Beauty and Happiness'.

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

George Bernard Shaw
Mother, Struggle, Artist
'Man and Superman' (1903) act 1

If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

George Bernard Shaw
Wise, Blessed, Starting

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

George Bernard Shaw
Christmas, Hatred, Sausage

The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Sin, Conversation
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2329, e-artnow

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

George Bernard Shaw
Strength, Opportunity, Needs

The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient.

George Bernard Shaw
Jobs, Men, Erring

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

George Bernard Shaw
Laughter, Men, Evil
"The Quintessence of Ibsenism (What is the New Element in the Norwegian School?)". Essay by George Bernard Shaw, 1891.

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

George Bernard Shaw
Real, Add, Misery
George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

George Bernard Shaw
Servant, Treated, Humans
'Man and Superman' (1903) 'Maxims: Servants'

Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

George Bernard Shaw
People, Hunts
1919 Lady Usherword to Mrs Hushabye. Heartbreak House, act 3.

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

George Bernard Shaw
Book, Writing, Mad

A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

George Bernard Shaw
Sugar, Faces, Made

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Language, Masters
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5797, e-artnow

From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.

George Bernard Shaw
Music, Important, Way

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

George Bernard Shaw
Health, Use, Inspirational Health
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.419, e-artnow

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

George Bernard Shaw
Soul, Ashamed, Disgusting
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3559, e-artnow

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Civilization, Hopeful
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2254, e-artnow

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt

George Bernard Shaw
Art, Style, Strokes

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

George Bernard Shaw
Book, World, Lessons
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1924, e-artnow

A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

George Bernard Shaw
Sex, Tragedy, Novelists

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